Thank you very much for this great honor of receiving the Roebling Medal. This is also a humbling moment because I know the Medal actually belongs to the large high-pressure mineralogy community, including my many friends and mentors in the audience. I happened to be with the right people at the right time in the right place. The last time I counted, the total number of coauthors on all my publications reached 394. Adding the people who have helped but have not coauthored with me, the total must be over 1000. The field is very...